Uniform-cap.



H. JULlC-H.

UNIFORM CAP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21v 1911.

Patented Jan. 7, 1919.

HERMAN J ULIGH, OF NEW ROCHELLE, YORK.

UNIFORM-GAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 7, 1919.

' llpplication'filed June 21, 1917. Serial No. 176,147;

Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Uniform-Cap, of which the following is a specification.

y way of explanation it may be stated that, heretofore, in the making of a cap, it has been customary to fold over the lower edge of the crown of the cap, a binding strip.

The vizor is then machine-stitched to the crown and to both walls of the binding strip. Finally, the sweat band is sewed by hand 15 to the inner wall of the bindin strip. From the foregoing it will be ObVlOllS that two separate operationsare necessary in order to attach the vizor to the crown and to attach the sweat band to the crown, the disadvantages of such a procedure being that much time is lost, and that the sweat band is not securedin place by a neat and invisible stitching.

In view of the foregoing, the present invention aims to provide a processwhereby, in a single operation, the sweat band and the vizor of a cap are secured to the crown, the inner portion of the stitchingbeing hid by the turned up, portion of the sweat band.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement or" parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be n ade with in the scope of what is claimed, without departin from the spirit of the invention.

In tne accompanying drawings D Figure 1 shows in cross section, a portion of a cap constructed in accordance with the present invention, the sweat band being turned down; A

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fi 1' ig)? is a sectional detail on an enlarged scale, the cutting plane bemg on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, the sweat band having been turned up.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 denotes a portion of the crown of a cap. A binding strip 2, ordinarily made ofcloth, is folded over the lower edge of the crown 1. The numeral 3 denotes a vizor, and the numeral 4 marks a sweat band.

Heretofore, as stated, the vizor 3 has been machine stitched to the binding strip 2 and the crown 1, and subsequently, the sweat band has been sewed, along its lower edge, to the inner wall of the binding strip. As a consequence'of the foregoing, two operations have been necessary in order to assemble the vizor and the sweat band with the crown, and, further, the hand stitching unit ing the-sweat band 4 with the inner wall of the binding strip 2 has been exposed and more or less irregular.

In carrying out the present invention, a folded reinforcement 5, which may be made of cloth, is applied to the sweat band 4, the reinforcement being placed against the inner wall. of the binding strip 2, along with the sweat band 4. The vizor 3 is placed against the outer wall of the binding strip Q, and the vizor 3, both walls of the binding strip 2, the crown land the sweat band 4 are ma chine stitched together, as indicated at 6,

in a single operation. Finally, the sweat band 4 is turned up inside of the crown l, as shown at 7, housing the stitching 6.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the vizor 3 and the sweat band 4 are assembled with the crown 1 in a single operation and, furthen'when the sweat band 4 is turned up as shown at 7 in Fig. 3, the stitching 6 is housed, on the inside of the cap, so that the stitching is not subject to deterioration, due to perspiration and, further, to the end that a perfectly smooth surface is presented by v the sweat band 4 to the brow of the wearer.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A cap comprising a crown, a binding strip folded over the'lower edge of the crown and comprising inner and outer walls; a visor coacting with the outer wall of the binding strip; a reinforcement folded transversely upon itself to form inner and outer walis, the outer wall of the reinforcement coacting with the inner Wall of the binding strip; a In testimony that I claim the foregoing sweat band coasting with the inner Wall of as my own, I have hereto affixed my signa- 10 the reinforcemenht; and a {single secufiinig' ture in the presenee of two witnesses.

means unitin t e vizor tle crown 0t 1 Walls of the b ndin strip, both walls hi the HERMAN JULICH' reinforcement, an the sweat band, the Witnesses:

sweat band being folcieci upwardly Within ALBERT C. HEILAND,

the crown, to house the securing means. HARRY Msneoms. 

